Nintendo DS as a teaching tool?

My kid was really excited about this story about Nintendo trying to get people in schools to use the DS as a teaching tool. I am not sure if the time is here but there are a few things going for it.

The man behind the massively popular video game franchise thinks so, saying he’s working [...]

Apple Announces iPad

So all the hype is over. Apple just announced the Ipad. This is the next generation device that is supposed to be in between the form factor of an iPhone and an iMac.
So what will this be used for? Steve Jobs has been saying that this is the next generation in computer devices and that [...]

I am going to Mars

I am so excited that Virgin and Google have announced that they are going to start colonizing Mars.

Although I am very excited to live on earth and have seen many places and had lots of plans here it would be wonderful to make a brand new start on a new planet.
I do have a few [...]

Blackberry service is going down

Apparently on March 22nd from 8 AM until noon eastern time Blackberry service across North  America will be going down.
Database upgrades are being blamed and of course on the Saturday of a long weekend is either the best time or the worst time for this but sometimes you have to have these outages to improve [...]

How to make complex decisions

One of the things that has always driven me crazy is the way that in our minds we can decide what is right based on a number of factors but when you try to get that down on paper it is really difficult to judge how to make a decision when there are a few [...]

Now it really looks like Blu-Ray won

Two news stories today about the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war and it does not look good for HD-DVD.
First this morning I saw that NetFlix is going to move to Blu-Ray exclusively in their online DVD rental system by the end of the year.
and now
I see that Best Buy is going to prefer Blu-Ray over HD-DVD [...]